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The Army of the Upright
Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill, mounted as she left it in 1930. Illness missing from literature, a language that runs dry, and the sentence she revised into something stranger.
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Blogs
Posts from neurodivergent writers and the blogs the Library follows.
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Coming to Terms
Ryan Boren on a lifetime of not fitting gender norms, a pair of pink-tinted glasses, and the two words — autigender and neuroqueer — that finally fit.
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Queering Earth
Reading the world through a queering lens — art, literature, poetry, politics, people, history — and asking what else any of it could have been. A Stimpunks Foundation and More Realms collaboration.
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How this site is made
The design of Queering Earth: a Victorian herbarium sheet as the model, biophilic ground rules, the palette, the type, the drawings, and what we mean by specimen, sheet, plate, and label.
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Bone Song, Read Aloud
Zine No. 95 — Young Readers Two true things about the bone inside your arm — the read-aloud door into Bone Song, Zine No. 1, which is where the argument lives.
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Seeds That Wait
Zine No. 93 — Young Readers Some seeds do nothing at all when you plant them, and they are not broken — read-aloud science for four to eight, with every source kept on the page where the grown-up can…
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The Colours You Cannot See
Zine No. 94 — Young Readers There are patterns on flowers that your eyes have no part for, and they are really there — read-aloud science for four to eight, with every source kept on the page where…
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Two Things on One Leaf
Zine No. 92 — Star Stuff On thirty frogs in a stock tank that perch on absolutely everything, a leaf that is quietly moving several litres of air a day into airless mud, and the pairing we invented…
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Nobody in This Pond Is Late
Zine No. 91 — Young Readers A frog changes, an axolotl never does, and both of them are grown-ups — read-aloud science for four to eight, with every source kept on the page where the grown-up can…
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A Field Guide to the Sexes
Field Guide No. 24 — Field Guides Nineteen organisms sorted not by how strange they are but by which assumption each one breaks — because “there are two sexes and you are one of them” is five claims…
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Strike “His”
Zine No. 90 — Star Gazing On the kinky, poly, gender-fluid, queer sex lives of Terran life — what a fish does to its own cell memory in ten days, what a fungus does with twenty-three thousand mating…
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Nobody Set Out To Do This
Zine No. 89 — Star Stuff On a course held to better than a degree that nobody can explain, the ocean’s largest cargo carried by an animal that is not eating, and what it means that the missing…
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Advice to a Young Marine Biologist
Trigger No. 2 — Triggers The ocean absorbed the heat and the carbon, and is now being billed for both.
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What We Are For
The Aims — Foundations The mission of starstuff.earth, in eleven aims — each with the page where it is already being kept.
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Which Distortion
5 September 2026 — Glimmers Nobody at any step became more accurate. They got better at choosing, and better at saying so.
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The Name Was Already the Verdict
Zine No. 88 — How We Got Here On a record with no words that was banned for its title, a title the musician did not choose, and thirty years of engineering that had already decided a deviation from…
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We Were Punk First
Rack · One scene — Sound Thirty-eight recordings of Indigenous punk, metal and hard rock — and the argument underneath them, which begins with a record that had no words in it and got banned anyway.
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Ecosystemic Distress and the Limits of Criminal Defences
The law needs a culprit. Criminal law has a job to do, and that job requires an individual. It requires a person who intended an outcome, or foresaw an outcome, or whom caused an outcome through…
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Overshoot
Trigger No. 1 — Triggers 1.5 °C sounds small because it is an average of a planet that is mostly ocean.
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Two Peppers
Zine No. 87 — Star Stuff On the point past which more light does nothing, one species that answered the same shade in two different ways, and what it takes to stop calling one of them a failure.
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Edition Two
4 September 2026 — Glimmer Wire The week nothing could be opened, published saying so — and then amended when the block lifted.
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Bird Minds
Field Guide No. 23 — Field Guides thirteen birds, sorted by what we wanted each one to prove
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Older Than Either of Us
Zine No. 86 — Star Stuff On the right angles in a pigeon’s forebrain, three papers that disagree about where they came from, and what belonging looks like under either answer.
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Six Principles and a Room
An Essay — Foundations An ethic you can only point at a person is an ethic that will keep finding the fault in the person.